R. M. Vinson and L. S. Jackson operated a sawmill about seven miles from Crockett, located on a tract of land belonging to Coke Gurness. In 1925, they sold the sawmill, a boiler, a steam engine, a pump, a three-block carriage, an edger, a saw mandrel, and the saw husk to E. A. Walling and R. E. Vinson.